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Recent studies show that securing the operating system is recognized as a necessary practice in an organization’s overall security policy, but it is not being done on a …

Steve Duncan is the Director of Entrust Certificate Services. Entrust Certificates for Adobe CDS enable organizations to use digital signatures to sign Adobe PDF files with …

At the end of last year, it was predicted spam volumes would rise slightly higher than 95 percent in 2009 because of a growing use of botnets. Let’s see if the …

It’s a common scenario right now, played out in executive suites across the country. A company is looking to cut back on expenses and overhead. IT, with its myriad of …

Mike Shema is the Web Application Security Engineer at Qualys. In this interview, he discusses the challenges related to effective Web application scanning, the way a Web …

In the spirit of improving Web application security worldwide the folks at OWASP have released the OWASP Top 10 2010 “release candidate”. It’s currently open …

There is an all-around media frenzy going on about the 8 million GPS location requests that Sprint Nextel received and automatically granted through a web portal to law …

It’s no secret that Microsoft has had the lion’s share of security vulnerabilities. Its success as a company has made it the most obvious and profitable target for …

There has been a lot of talk this year about the increasing sophistication of cybercrime threat – even going so far as to claim that virus creation has moved into the …

If you’re one among the millions of users of WordPress, and you really don’t have that much knowledge about what’s going on under the hood, your best bet to …

When evaluating an automated web application security tool, such as Acunetix WVS, the first two questions that typically one would ask are “Does this tool perform an …

Test your sites and web applications and perform a security assessment/audit of your work with these handy tools: 1. Tamper Data Use it to view and modify HTTP/HTTPS headers …